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From New Order to Reformasi: Indonesian Subnational Politics in the Post-New Order Era1
Jurnal Hubungan Internasional, 2015 Direct local election in Indonesia has been run since the middle of 2005. It is bringing some changes, especially in political reformation. Changed election mechanism to direct election done by the society in the region.
Leo Agustino, Mohammad Agus Yusoff
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Electorate redistricting for a single-member district plurality, two-ballot voting system: Taiwan’s electoral reform [PDF]
Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research, 2014 In this study, we formulated a mathematical model for electorate demarcation in line with Taiwan’s electoral reforms, minimizing legislative seats for the main opposition party in Taipei City.
Lin Pei-Chun, Cheng Chiu Edwin Tai
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Direct democracy and political extremism
Economica, Volume 93, Issue 371, Page 1095-1121, July 2026.Abstract We study how citizens' right to directly decide on policies through popular initiatives affects the attractiveness of extreme candidates in representative elections. In our theoretical framework, single prominent policy issues on which individual voters hold extreme views get a large weight in their assessment of candidates, thereby favouring ...
Nicolas Schreiner, Alois Stutzer
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AERA Open, 2022 School rezoning, or redistricting, is the process by which school boards draw and redraw school attendance boundaries. These boundaries are key drivers of racial and economic school segregation but can also work to ameliorate it.
Andrene J. Castro +3 more
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Theoretical Computer Science, 2019 Gerrymandering is a long-standing issue within the U.S. political system, and it has received scrutiny recently by the U.S. Supreme Court. In this note, we prove that deciding whether there exists a fair redistricting among legal maps is NP-hard. To make this precise, we use simplified notions of "legal" and "fair" that account for desirable traits ...
Richard Kueng +2 more
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The Political Economy of Attention: Media Salience, Voter Cognition, and Electoral Accountability
Journal of Economic Surveys, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 1173-1193, July 2026.ABSTRACT We review conceptual and empirical contributions to the political economy of attention, with a focus on how attention allocation shapes political behavior and electoral accountability. The review distinguishes between endogenous (goal‐directed) and exogenous (stimulus‐driven) attention and examines how these concepts are incorporated into ...
Patrick Balles +2 more
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Comparative AI‐Based Framework for Name‐Based Demographic Inference in the Indian Subcontinent
Engineering Reports, Volume 8, Issue 6, June 2026.A multi‐task framework of five AI models (SVM, XGBoost, LightGBM, BiLSTM, and XLM‐RoBERTa) infers nationality, religion, and gender from personal names across seven Indian subcontinent countries. Character‐level TF‐IDF with SVM achieves the highest accuracy: 83.23% for nationality, 92.94% for religion, and 92.67% for gender across 7581 names.
Sherin Sultana +5 more
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Idiosyncratic Political Risk and Bad News Hoarding
Financial Review, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 659-685, May 2026.ABSTRACT Managers may respond to greater political risk by suppressing unfavorable news from outsiders to manage investors’ perceptions about firm risk and protect their careers. However, they may also avoid engaging in bad news hoarding activities because exposure to political risk increases firm visibility and attracts greater scrutiny. Using a novel
Gonul Colak +2 more
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Fair Division and Redistricting
CoRR, 2014 20 pages; to appear, Contemporary ...
Zeph Landau, Francis Edward Su
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Do Women Legislators Legislate Differently Than Men on Gun‐Related Policy? A Suggestive Yes
Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT Polls show that men are less likely to support gun restrictions than women, but do voter preferences translate into elite behavior? To answer this question, we use a novel dataset of hand‐coded state firearm legislation across six politically diverse states (California, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Texas) to construct an 11‐year panel ...
Patrick Cunha Silva +2 more
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